Scholarly Manuscript Descriptions

Each digitized manuscript is accompanied by basic information, translated into the four languages of the e-codices website. These minimal metadata are completed with scholarly manuscript descriptions. The most relevant description is selected by the participating libraries for use as "standard description" on the site. Where multiple descriptions are available, the owner library chooses which should be displayed as the "standard description"; others are displayed as "additional descriptions". Our goal is to make all published descriptions of each manuscript available on e-codices wherever possible. In some cases the only available description may have been published over a hundred years ago. When a more recent or relevant description becomes available for our use, e-codices adds it to the website as the new "standard description" and the previous "standard description" becomes an "additional description". In many cases, affiliated scholars and librarians have written new descriptions specifically for use by e-codices. These as yet unpublished descriptions are listed in the table below.

All descriptions on our website follow the published descriptions on which they are based as closely as possible. Users can also view the XML format/TEI-P5 versions of all online descriptions and, when available and authorized by the publisher, PDFs of the print versions as well.

Manuscript descriptions that are not yet published or have been written for e-codices